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DURING May 1940, eighteen earthquakes were registered at the Swiss Seismological Observatories of Basle, Chur, Neuchatel and Zurich. The observers at Zurich have estimated the epicentres of the larger shocks as follows: May 1, in the province of Parma in Italy; May 4, in the Pacific Ocean east of the Kamchatka Peninsula near lat. 50° N., long. 170° E.; May 7, in Anatolia near lat. 42° N., long. 34° E.; May 19, one again near the Kamchatka Peninsula about lat. 49° N., long. 158° E., and one possibly in the Indian Ocean; May 24, one near Lima in Peru, also one in Central Germany.
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Earthquakes during May 1940. Nature 145, 1015 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1451015a0